Senior Contract Job Trends in South London

Senior
London > South London

The median Senior daily rate in South London is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 26 37 31
As % of all contract jobs in South London 13.07% 16.09% 12.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.47% 16.82% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 24
10th Percentile £505 £380 £296
25th Percentile £511 £511 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £554 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +8.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £555 £938 £556
90th Percentile £588 - £595
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £54.37 - £40.82
25th Percentile £54.55 - £40.82
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £43.84
75th Percentile £65.88 - £46.86
90th Percentile £66.50 - £46.86
London median hourly rate £58.84 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.97% -6.96% +5.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South London with a recognized job title 193 220 245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.98% 95.65% 96.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 146 169
10th Percentile £284 £205 £157
25th Percentile £413 £400 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £775 £675
London median daily rate £526 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.45% -1.79% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 18
10th Percentile £54.40 £22.41 £15.59
25th Percentile £54.55 £30.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £46.55 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.78% +98.09% -46.42%
75th Percentile £76.58 £64.24 £44.95
90th Percentile - £72.74 £56.67
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -4.41%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Senior job vacancy trend in South London

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South London

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in South London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in South London

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in South London

Senior
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Merton +5 12 - - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 12 - - 2
Croydon -19 6 £521 -1.65% 5
Bromley -2 4 £650 - 17
Sutton - 3 £530 - 1
Senior
London

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Python
3 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) Terraform
4 9 (34.62%) Scrum
5 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 6 (23.08%) AWS
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Degree
6 6 (23.08%) Docker
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
7 5 (19.23%) Kafka
7 5 (19.23%) Linux
7 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (15.38%) Ansible
8 4 (15.38%) Bash
8 4 (15.38%) BMC
8 4 (15.38%) Grafana
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (15.38%) Migration
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Remedy

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JUnit
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Local Government
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.85%) OpenID
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) IVR
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) Scrum
4 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) Migration
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Analytics
8 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (11.54%) DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) UML
10 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (3.85%) Regression Testing
10 1 (3.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) Rust
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) SCOM
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
4 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) BMC
2 4 (15.38%) Remedy
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 4 (15.38%) Trend Micro
3 3 (11.54%) PagerDuty